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Quotation by Derek Walcott:

If you know hat you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Derek Walcott     (more by this author)

1930 -

The Hon. Derek Alton Walcott, OCC (born January 23, 1930) is a Saint Lucian (West Indies) poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros.

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Context Details: The quotation is Google's Daily Literary quote for January 15, 2011.

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